INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS HAVING PLURALITY OF START MODES

Abstract

Provided is an information recording apparatus having a mode SW for selecting a first mode of starting photographing after operations of a unit for detecting whether or not there is a disk and a unit for detecting remaining recording capacity of the disk when an instruction is given to start photographing through a photographing SW, or a second mode of starting photographing and operating a unit for detecting whether or not there is a disk and a unit for detecting the remaining recording capacity of the disk when the instruction is given to start the photographing through the photographing SW. The information recording apparatus is convenient in that stress given to a user in a case where the photographing cannot be performed immediately or data cannot be recorded even though photographing has started can be suppressed to a minimum.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an information recording apparatus of a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining operations of the information recording apparatus shown in FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining operations of the information recording apparatus of a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an information recording apparatus of a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining operations of the information recording apparatus shown in FIG. 4.

Claims

1. An information recording apparatus for recording photographed image data, comprising: a buffer memory for temporarily storing the photographed image data;a recording unit for recording the image data accumulated in the buffer memory to a disk recording medium;a disk recording medium detecting circuit for detecting whether or not the disk recording medium is mounted;a remaining recording capacity detecting circuit for detecting remaining capacity of the disk recording medium; anda selection circuit for selecting one from the group consisting of: a first mode of starting to accumulate the image data to the buffer memory after operations of the disk recording medium detecting circuit and the remaining capacity detecting circuit; anda second mode of starting operations of the disk recording medium detecting circuit and the remaining capacity detecting circuit after starting the accumulation of the image data to the buffer memory.

2. The information recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a user can select one of the first mode and the second mode when power is on.

3. The information recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a user can select one of the first mode and the second mode in replacing the disk recording medium.

4. The information recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a circuit for instructing formatting of the disk recording medium, wherein the information recording apparatus starts formatting of the disk recording medium after starting the accumulation of the image data to the buffer memory when the second mode is selected by the selection circuit and the formatting of the disk recording medium is instructed by the instruction circuit.